Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for that very thought-provoking presentation, Dr. Gaffield.
I come from an education background. I was on the school board in Guelph for 18 years. So I always worry about disparities being created between people--affordable, accessible, all these issues.
I remember when we bought our first word processor at my law firm. I paid $12,000 for it. It was an AEG, and I had to have it covered with a glass case because the printer made so much noise.
I do concern myself that this is a possible cause of disparity. We assume that everybody carries these around with them. They don't. We assume that everybody has access to a laptop. The decisions we made at the school board were, “Is it musical instruments, phys ed, or computers?”
I'm wondering if you could spend your time--because literacy is important in the digital age--on whether you think there's going to be a greater gap between the advantaged and disadvantaged because of a lack of access to everything that we assume is accessible and affordable.